Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where Mickey fails to draw us into the world of Russian court affairs, Adam Schwartz, as a vodka-guzzling, bearish Patiomkin duly succeeds. Schwartz is most endearing as the sotted-out relation to the Great Catherine. Everyone is "a darkbg" in Patiomkn's eyes, and Shwartz plays the part to...
In her performance as the Russian leader, Humphrey gives one of the most effective performances of the evening, in that the hard edge she gives to Catherine's character demands the audience's attention. And as the supercilious and snooty Edstaston, Ross comfortably slides into Shaw's caricature of the...
One of the terrific things about this double bill is that most of the actors in the first play return for the second. Orion Ross sheds the stuffy English character to stand out as the cutie pie-Casanova who bunny hops his way around the stage, causing Princess Huncamunca (Jennifer...
Falling into the former category are Goldstone and Brun. Goldstone brings to the role of Algernon a languorous drollery that epitomizes the Wildean aesthetic. Brun lets the tiniest hint of whimsy animate his Lane, transforming a minor character into an indispensable one.
Look at Gorbachev's Soviet Union through the eyes of Andrei Sinyavsky, and prepare to be astonished. As a literary critic in Moscow, Sinyavsky for years secretly published bitter, moving short stories in the West under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. When Soviet officials discovered Tertz's real identity in 1965...